Re: Amaya/HTML & Euro-s (was: Re: Automatic switch between browse and edit) from David LeBlanc on 1999-01-25 (www-amaya@w3.org from January to March 1999)

From: David LeBlanc <whisper@accessone.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 09:43:28 -0800
To: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990125094328.023e2d20@mail.accessone.com>

There's an addendum at the unicode site the clarifies the encoding for the
Euro symbol.

Dave LeBlanc

At 01:01 PM 1/25/99 +0000, David J Woolley wrote:
>> > What is the HTML definition of the EURO sign?
>> > Like the Cent symbol is &#162; the pound is &#163; the yen is &#165; 
>> > 
>> 
>> The hex value is 20A0 according to 
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>It's actually already in the HTML 4 spec:
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><!ENTITY euro CDATA "&#8364;" -- euro sign, U+20AC NEW -->
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>Also, for confusion, Unicode seems to define both a "euro-currency sign at
A0 
>and a "euro sign" at AC!
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